As the volume, variety and velocity of available data all continue to grow at astonishing rates, businesses face two urgent challenges: how to uncover actionable insights within this data, and how to […]

Hadoop clusters are under siege by a recently discovered malware threat designed to take over cloud-based servers as a platform for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks. The malware dubbed DemonBot was reported in […]

Big data platform deployments hit some rough patches in recent years, as the bright ideas of application developers and newly minted data scientists struggled to emerge from proof-of-concept and prototype projects. But […]

In the early days of big data that followed the invention of Hadoop at Yahoo, proponents emphasized its potential for replacing bulging enterprise data warehouses focused on business intelligence. Open source Hadoop […]

Pandora Media, the music streaming service, transitioned two years ago from heavy reliance on Hadoop for distributed processing to MemSQL as its primary database. The switch was prompted by the company’s inability […]